Jackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The good Christian slaveholder was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times.

It cannot well be denied that Jackson ?possessed every single attribute which makes for success in ?war. Morally and physically he was absolutely fearless. ?He…

Jackson fought for the constitutional rights of the South, and any one who imagines he fought for slavery knows nothing of Jackson.

Rally around the Virginians, there stands Jackson like a stone wall.

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. This state ca…

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.